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How do I import music into a sensible folder path??
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<blockquote data-quote="chas_m" data-source="post: 1689718"><p>I know some people get an obsessive joy out of micro-managing each individual file on their computer, but as for me -- I bought a computer to do that for me. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /></p><p></p><p>Yes, I'm enough of a nerd that I *looked* at how iTunes organizes its database internally, but what I saw there was that it did it precisely the way I would do it by hand:</p><p></p><p>Artist -> Album -> Song</p><p></p><p>And so I let it handle that. Like all good databases (and that's really what iTunes -- and Photos/iPhoto, and indeed the Finder -- really are), it let's me re-arrange the VIEWING of these files in nearly any way one might find important, from year purchased to beats per minute (though 99.7 percent of people sort by "artist" or "album" or alphabetical "name"). This is precisely what I bought a computer *for* -- so that I don't have to do that.</p><p></p><p>Coming from PC-land, I can understand why some people are reluctant to "let go" of the micro-management, but really for most things it is just not necessary with a Mac -- unless you're dealing with a compulsion, and that's a comment on the user, not the platform.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="chas_m, post: 1689718"] I know some people get an obsessive joy out of micro-managing each individual file on their computer, but as for me -- I bought a computer to do that for me. :) Yes, I'm enough of a nerd that I *looked* at how iTunes organizes its database internally, but what I saw there was that it did it precisely the way I would do it by hand: Artist -> Album -> Song And so I let it handle that. Like all good databases (and that's really what iTunes -- and Photos/iPhoto, and indeed the Finder -- really are), it let's me re-arrange the VIEWING of these files in nearly any way one might find important, from year purchased to beats per minute (though 99.7 percent of people sort by "artist" or "album" or alphabetical "name"). This is precisely what I bought a computer *for* -- so that I don't have to do that. Coming from PC-land, I can understand why some people are reluctant to "let go" of the micro-management, but really for most things it is just not necessary with a Mac -- unless you're dealing with a compulsion, and that's a comment on the user, not the platform. [/QUOTE]
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